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Growth of the Soil

Knut Hamsun

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1917
Originally in
Originally in Norwegian
Pages
Pages 440

A solitary man walks into the Norwegian wilderness and builds a farm from nothing with his bare hands, and the wife, children and neighbours who slowly gather around him grow it, generation after generation, into a living settlement.

The long, long road over the moors and up into the forest—who trod it into being first of all?
Growth of the Soil, Knut Hamsun

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